I expect that, fortunately, the AI safety community will be able to mostly learn from what people automating AI capabilities research and research in other domains (more broadly) will be doing.
It would be nice to have some hands-on experience with automated safety research, too, though, and especially to already start putting in place the infrastructure necessary to deploy automated safety research at scale. Unfortunately, AFAICT, right now this seems mostly bottlenecked on something like scaling up grantmaking and funding capacity, and there doesn’t seem to be enough willingness to address these bottlenecks very quickly (e.g. in the next 12 months) by e.g. hiring and / or decentralizing grantmaking much more aggressively.
I expect that, fortunately, the AI safety community will be able to mostly learn from what people automating AI capabilities research and research in other domains (more broadly) will be doing.
It would be nice to have some hands-on experience with automated safety research, too, though, and especially to already start putting in place the infrastructure necessary to deploy automated safety research at scale. Unfortunately, AFAICT, right now this seems mostly bottlenecked on something like scaling up grantmaking and funding capacity, and there doesn’t seem to be enough willingness to address these bottlenecks very quickly (e.g. in the next 12 months) by e.g. hiring and / or decentralizing grantmaking much more aggressively.
Agreed, but I will find a way.